Choose New from the File menu, and then
select the file type you want to create.

At the prompt, type the URI or the local path name of the new document (a
default name is assigned to the document if no name is specified). You can
use the file browser to find a local directory.

Choose the location of the new documentÂ : Replace current, In new tab or
In new Window.

If you are creating a new XHTML document:

When a title of the new document is requested, Amaya
generates a default title (the file name without the suffix). That
title could be updated later by the Tools/Change title
command.

If you plan to use a template, click the
From template toggle and select a template, either by
selecting in the list of registered templates or by typing the URI or
file name of a template that is not in the list. To update the list of
available templates, see Preferences/Templates

If you do not want to use a template, you may specify the
Document profile of the new document (XHTML
Transitional, XHTML 1.1, XHTML strict, XHTML basic, HTML transitional,
Compound document).Â You may use the default profile proposed by Amaya.

If you want to create a XHTML document including either MathML or
SVG elements (Compound document), it is recommended to create a
document file with a .xml suffix.

You may select a charset to encode strings in the
document. Pay attention, if you plan to publish your document on a server,Â
this charset should be selected in accordance with the Web
server that will serve the document (contact your web master).
By default .html pages are served with iso-8859-1
and .xml pages are served with utf-8.

Click Create.Â The new document is open, and a root
element is created.

Opening a document

You can open local and remote documents in several ways:

File menu

Choose Open document from the
File menu.

Note: You can alternately use a
keyboard shortcut to open a document. Press Ctrl-o
ctrl-o.

In the Open document dialog, type the full path or
URI of the file you want to open, or use the Browse
button (a file icon) to open a file selection dialog.

When the document is correctly specified, click
Open.

You can also use these steps to create a new local document, by
specifying the name of a file that does not exist.

Files browser

A file browser may be displayed in the tools area with Views
> Show/Hide toolbars > Files. This tool gives access to
all local directories. A simple click allows you to open or close a
directory and a double click on a file name opens the corresponding
document.

Document address field

Note that this method works only if you have chosen a profile with the navigation feature.

The address of the current document is displayed at the top of the
window. Edit this address to specify the file name or the URI of the
document you want to open and press Enter.

You can also create a new document by typing the name of a document
that does not exist yet.

Note: You can click the button on the
right side of the document address field to display the list of the
documents you have opened recently. You can then select an address in
this list to open the corresponding document.

Amaya reads HTML documents by default as ISO-Latin-1 files. If an author does not provide
information about the character set (charset) in the HTTP header or in a
meta element, Amaya considers an HTML document to be encoded
in ISO-Latin-1.

Amaya reads XHTML documents by default as UTF-8 files. If an author does
not provide information about the charset in the HTTP header, in the XML
declaration, or in a meta element, Amaya considers an XHTML
document to be encoded in UTF-8.

Because the default charset is different for HTML and XHTML documents,
authors often create documents using the incorrect charset. For example,
consider an XHTML document that uses ISO Latin-1 but does not provide
information about the charset. When the XML parser analyzing the document
encounters a sequence of bits that does not match a valid UTF-8 character, the
document is considered to be not well formed. Parsing stops and Amaya displays
an error message that proposes either to reload the document as an HTML
document or to show parsing errors. If show parsing errors is chosen, Amaya
displays the detected errors.